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A joke can make us laugh out loud and it can do nothing.
It is the same joke yet told by different people ... so what makes a joke a good one?
... its the way the joke is told
The photo, be it conceptual or indicative may have no meaning unless taken in the "proper"...
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Hi DT'ers
I, like many others have recently been making a significant effort to improve my downloads. There doesn't seem to be an one size fits all answer, but effort in does equal reward out, as with most things in life that are worth doing.
A friend and I often plan...
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Today My first panorama was accepted in which I am very excited, I have been working on Trying to perfect my panoramas for a little over 5 months, and while it may have taken awhile to understand how to create High quality Panoramas I now can start focusing more on the subject...
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Been on Dreamstime a few years now and I can say there's no magic formula to selling images, in other words sales don't explode by reaching any certain approval rating or having a certain amount of images in your portfolio, I believe that the 80% approval rating sales kicker...
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And 7400 sold. It took a while but now it's going faster because I know better what sells. I also know exactly what DT wants as far as technical issues. The secret is being selective and not uploading everything I shoot. Quality vs quantity, that is the secret.
Heading for...
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I know the motto, "quality versus quantity", but I can't help but to think that the larger my portfolio is and the more diverse it is, the more chances I have for sales. I'm constantly in pursuit of interesting and useful images to expand my portfolio. As I carry on with...
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My journey in the field of stock photography started in the month of May- June 2015. It was summer vacation in my country, me and my kids were tired of shooting remote images and landscapes, a friend of mine told me about stock photography and its standards. The high quality...
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Two years ago I uploaded my first photo to DT. Since then, slowly but steadily I have been creating a portfolio of over 2000 images.
This project is still starting and gradually taking shape. Will try to increase the ratio of uploads and improve the quality of my images....
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Hi fellow dreamers.
Just wanted to share some success in reaching my first milestone of $100 on Dreamtime.
I started back in Sept last year and had only owned my camera for about 3 months and wanted to challenge myself to see if anyone would want to buy a photo I had...
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Hi Girls and Guys, here I go direct to the point, but first I want to mention that most of you had heard that you should buy an entry camera and then buying new stuffs according to need you feel necessary. FORGET IT!
I had spend some years with entry cameras and I...
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I am relatively new here at Dreamstime, and I am certainly not going to make a living on it. However I enjoy taking pictures, and am learning from my failures.
The other day I was looking at my employer's external website, and noticed some really great pictures. When...
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I joined Dreamstime in 2009 and submitted many photos for approval.
Only 16 were ever accepted as the quality of my photos was never up to standard. So my percentage rating is pretty low as you can imagine. Disappointment after disappointment followed ... but I persisted....
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Today DT approved my 150th photo!
I'm very happy because of that, but even more happy cause I really see the progress in my photos, so my learning and long evening hours with camera alone and in front of computer had paid off. And I want everyone to see the difference!...
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Hi friends,
First of all l would like to say that I am not (NOT) a pro but just a hobbyist and still learning.
But let me share some tips that I think may be useful for someone like me.
I happened to read this book, "Taking Stock: Make money in microstock...
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LONG STORY SHORT!
So you want sharpen images without noise with a good quality like a PRO. Okay, let's go.
1st - Accept the limitations of your camera, it means you need as much light as cheaper your camera and lens are.
2nd - Reduce ISO? As much as you don&...
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Finally tired of fighting the camera and the far-too-often "out of focus" issues when an image is not accepted, I went ahead and ordered a Canon 7D (upgrading from a T2i.)
I can't believe how much better my images are turning out! And, I wondered why I had waited so long...
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sometimes DT refused my photos saying that the quality was low, because of camera quality lenses.In fact, the photos were taken with a compact camera.
these photo was taken during a concert of an italian singer.
first time dt refused it.
I have not lost hope and I used...
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Hi!! Sometimes quality supplementation quantity,sometimes quantity supplementation quality.Was talk and talk more about the concept in stock.Because that brings sale, concept and conceptual.
But also some editorial stock bring sales,and you know that.
Editorial with...
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